Comic Book: Red Skull (2011 series)

Red Skull #1

September 2011
"[Red Skull: Incarnate Chapter 1]"
Script: Greg Pak
1923: As the German economy is at its lowest point, the orphaned Johann Shmidt is in the Munich Home for Wayward Boys, managed by a brutal Director. His friend Dieter finds a stray puppy and Johann helps him hide it from the dog catcher and from the Director. [...]

Red Skull #2

October 2011
"[Red Skull: Incarnate] “Chapter 2”"
Script: Greg Pak
Berlin, 1926: Conditions are going back to normal, the Nazi movement is visible but believed to be a dying phenomenon. [...]

Red Skull #3

November 2011
"Red Skull: Incarnate Chapter 3"
Script: Greg Pak
Berlin, 1933: Adolf Hitler is now Chancellor. As a newly-minted Nazi member is practicing his speech, he receives a visit from Johann Shmidt, reminding him to money owed to gangster Emilie Beckert; he refuses, being part of the powerful Nazi party so Shmidt stabs him. [...]

Red Skull #4

December 2011
"[Red Skull] Incarnate Chapter 4"
Script: Greg Pak
Nuremburg, 1933: Johann Shmidt is a member of the Sturmabteilung a/k/a the Brownshirts but recognizes they are only for show at the rallies; the SS are the real soldiers. [...]

Red Skull #5

January 2012
"[Red Skull] Incarnate Chapter 5"
Script: Greg Pak
Munich, 1934: Johann Shmidt encounters his old commander from the Brownshirts who once beat him up as a troublemaker (issue #4). The Commander is drinking heavily because his dreams of Ernst Rohm seizing power have come to naught, as Rohm has become Hitler’s servant. [...]